Command Line Interface

Table 55: SNMP configuration settings (Continued)

Entry

Description

ReadCommunity

Read community password that authorizes an SNMP agent to

 

read information from the switch. This is a write-only field. The

 

value on the switch and the SNMP management server must

 

be the same. The read community password can be up to 32

 

characters excluding #, semicolon (;), and comma (,). The

 

default is “public”.

 

 

WriteCommunity

Write community password that authorizes an SNMP agent to

 

write information to the switch. This is a write-only field. The

 

value on the switch and the SNMP management server must

 

be the same. The write community password can be up to 32

 

characters excluding #, semicolon (;), and comma (,). The

 

default is “private”.

 

 

TrapCommunity

Trap community password that authorizes an SNMP agent to

 

receive traps. This is a write-only field. The value on the switch

 

and the SNMP management server must be the same. The

 

trap community password can be up to 32 characters

 

excluding #, semicolon (;), and comma (,). The default is

 

“public”.

 

 

AuthFailureTrap

Enables (True) or disables (False) the generation of traps in

 

response to trap authentication failures. The default is False.

 

 

ProxyEnabled

Enables (True) or disables (False) SNMP communication with

 

other switches in the fabric. The default is True.

 

 

system

Prompts you in a line-by-line fashion to change system configuration settings. Table 56 describes the system configuration parameters. For each parameter, enter a new value or press Enter to accept the current value shown in brackets.

Note: Changing the IP address will terminate all Ethernet management sessions.

Table 56: System configuration settings

Entry

Description

Eth0NetworkDiscovery

Ethernet boot method: 1 - Static, 2 - Bootp, 3 - DHCP,

 

4 - RARP. The default is 1 - Static.

 

 

Eth0NetworkAddress

Ethernet Internet Protocol (IP) address. The default is 10.0.0.1.

 

 

Eth0NetworkMask

Ethernet subnet mask address.

 

 

Eth0GatewayAddress

Ethernet IP address gateway.

 

 

AdminTimeout

Specifies the amount of time in minutes the switch waits before

 

terminating an idle Admin session. Zero (0) disables the time

 

out threshold. The default is 30, the maximum is 1440.

 

 

LocalLogEnabled

Enables (True) or disables (False) the saving of log information

 

on the switch. The default is True.

 

 

RemoteLogEnabled

Enables (True) or disables (False) the recording of the switch

 

event log on a remote host that supports the syslog protocol.

 

The default is False.